Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 07:49 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
I don't see a solution there... Either a company patents it now as a
protective measure or they let someone else do it. Either way
it might end up owned by someone else later. What's the alternative?
Patent it, then put the patent into the Public Domain. That's what
Benjamin Franklin, who argued passionately against having patents
at all, used to do.
Is someone offering to cover the costs for that?
I thought you were looking for an alternative to simply patenting
something. It costs no more to put something into the Public Domain.
Today, patents only help large corporations. They are useless to the
small company and individuals.
Mike
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